{"id":31265,"date":"2026-05-22T09:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/?post_type=movies&#038;p=31265"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:39:07","slug":"the-measure-of-a-man","status":"publish","type":"movies","link":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/movies\/the-measure-of-a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Measure of a Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Measure of a Man<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a stark depiction of a family man struggling with unemployment, portrayed by a stalwart of contemporary French cinema Vincent Lindon, in his most acclaimed performance (which earned him, among other accolades, the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lindon is a brilliant interpreter of working class and underworld characters, possessing a presence and style which can withstand both grander and more understated forms of expression. Lindon is in almost every frame of this film, which mostly consists of long very close-up takes, and the events are experienced with an intense closeness through him. Sporting a thick moustache and a curly mane, Lindon is almost like a Finnish brooding grump in his role as the long-unemployed Thierry, a man who rarely speaks or shows emotion. Yet we only need to follow the events alongside the observant Thierry to deduce what&#8217;s going on inside his head.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Within his apparently harmonious family, Thierry has a wife and a developmentally disabled son, who nonetheless manages reasonably well in school and dreams of vocational studies. However, raising the boy and paying for his education demands money. With Lindon&#8217;s help, <a href=\"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/guests\/stephane-brize\/\">St\u00e9phane Briz\u00e9<\/a> beautifully illustrates what kind of emotional wringer the protagonist is put through as a family man seeking employment. He eventually lands a job in supermarket camera surveillance, monitoring\u00a0 other poverty-stricken people like himself \u2013 at which point the pressure really begins to mount.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Timo Malmi<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Measure of a Man is a stark depiction of a family man struggling with unemployment, portrayed by a stalwart of contemporary French cinema Vincent Lindon, in his most acclaimed performance (which earned him, among other accolades, the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival). 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